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Wales made a decent start, and enjoyed more possession in the opening four minutes than they did in the entire first half against Australia a week earlier – but still found themselves trailing!

The Argentinians had not got a hand on the ball before forcing Leigh Halfpenny into touch, but they caught Wales cold with a quick throw-in and the home team were forced to kill the ball to snuff out the danger.

Wales were also enjoying overwhelming supremacy at the scrum, and after warning the Pumas for collapsing on several occasion referee Angus Gardner’s patience finally ran out.

He yellow-carded prop Ramiro Herrera a minute before the break, and in the reshuffle that followed wing Matias Moroni was forced to fill in at blind side flanker as Wales called for one more scrum on the brink of half-time.

Incredibly, Argentina pushed Wales off their own ball to earn a relieving penalty. The stunned silence that greeted the players as they trudged towards the dressing rooms said it all.

But Wales finally showed a flash of creativity to make the breakthrough three minutes after the interval.

Dan Biggar, winning his 50th cap, glided through a gap on the narrow side and found good support from Halfpenny to keep the momentum going.

Williams still had plenty to do when the ball was moved to the opposite wing. But from a standing start he cut through two defenders and carried a third one over the line, with the TMO confirming the much-needed score.

The celebrations had only just died down when Argentina hit back in dramatic fashion, despite being down to 14 men

Scrum half Martin Landajo took a quick tapped penalty and darted through the disorganised Welsh defence before aiming a pinpoint grubber kick for Juan Martin Hernandez to finish off.

Sanchez’s conversion meant there was just one point between the teams. But thankfully, there was far more intensity to the Welsh game than they showed against the Aussies.

Another fearsome driving maul took play to within a couple of yards of the posts, and scrum half Davies bashed through three tacklers to score, only for Landajo to wriggle over from close range as the tit-for-tat continued.

With Halfpenny and Sanchez trading kicks there was still one point in it, until the Welsh full back landed the decisive blow.